The Math: Park and Pay and Pay

SEATTLE PARKING INFRACTION
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Citation Date: 08/16/2012
Time: 16:34
City of Seattle Parking Infraction
The Municipal Court of Seattle
P.O. Box C-34109, Seattle WA 98124
(206) 684-6600
VIOLATIONS
$4
Hourly parking meter fee in downtown Seattle, after a 60 percent increase in 2011 made the city one of the priciest places to park in the U.S.
$44
Cost per parking infraction, after the city approved a 12 percent parking-ticket-fee increase in 2011
$35 million
Amount the city collected in parking revenue in 2011
$53 million
Amount owed by drivers for unpaid tickets in Seattle
2,713
Vehicles booted since July 2011, thanks to a law allowing police to employ a 15-pound steel boot to immobilize vehicles with more than four unpaid tickets
$72,000
Amount owed in unpaid parking tickets by one man, the city’s most stubborn parking scofflaw
Public Comments:
PROOF OF PAYMENT RECEIPT EXPIRED